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What is the recommended way to implement a high level clutter based listview?

I would like to use a clutter backed Listview.

The features I need are:

  • multi-selection
  • keyboard navigation
  • scrolling
  • lazy loading (like Gtk.TreeView with fixed height rows)

I've stumbled upon Clutter.Model that looks a lot like Gtk.TreeModel.

Is there any "high level" clutter ui components that uses Model?

What is the recommended approach to have such features implemented with clutter based components?

edit: I found code showing how to use Clutter.Model in the toys repository: object-store

Solution

  • ClutterModel and its concrete class ClutterListModel is just a simplified version of GtkTreeModel and GtkListStore. It's actually fairly useless on its own, and will likely be deprecated in Clutter 1.24.

    There are no examples of Clutter actors using ClutterModel; some higher level toolkits, like Mx and the Moblin/MeeGo netbook user experience had some widget displaying a ClutterListModel-backed list.